Who Is America's Homer? (opens in new tab)

Homer is the poet who defines classical Greece as a culture. Plough magazine asks:If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity?The article authors suggest Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Herman Melville, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, among other writers.There is much conversation today on X on the subject. I've seen proposals of Cormac M...